University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1982
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Cults
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General Robert Stephan to issue an opinion on the constitutionality of the bill.
ALDERSON SAID the case involved a former Kansas judge who had granted a temporary guardianship.
But Robert Alderson, first deputy attorney general said the office did not issue an opinion because the State office was involved in legislation now in a federal court case in Arizona.
"It's the duty of the attorney general to defend judges. We didn't feel we could defend a judge and issue an opinion on it at the same time."
The bill passed the House with very little opposition, but by the time hearings were scheduled in the Senate committee, the bill's votes were down and came out in full force to testify against it.
Those who spoke against it included religious scholars, lawyers, members of several religious organizations—including cults and culted members—and even parents of cult members.
Most of them said the bill took away an individual's right to practice freedom of religion.
They also said it would require a judge to determine the difference between "mind control" and a genuine religious conversion, which is not really possible to make for anyone but the person involved.
Some opponents said the legislation could be used by any parent who did not like the
religious group his child joined. But because the bill does not specify religious groups, some said it could refer to any organization that caused a dramatic change in a person's personality or lifestyle and could be shown to employ methods of coercion and misrepresentation.
Some of these who testified agreed cults were a problem, but not one that should be dealt with by the government. They suggested that churches organize meetings between members of religious groups and their parents who disagreed with their choice.
Lowell Mitcham, Kansas director of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Ufficial Church, said that when there was a disagreement between them and their problems in a "non-hostile environment."
"It would be better if different mainline meetings were held," neutral meeting place." said Mitchum, 1543.
The program calls for parents who make complaints against their adult children who are members of the Unification Church to participate in investigators for an interview with their children.
But he said a program begin in January by the police was "at least one step" in the right direction.
Police officers are instructed to remain neutral in the investigation, which is designed to determine whether the member is the victim of any criminal activity, and to keep themselves and the member to meet alone without the threat of kidnapping by deprogrammers.
One of the reasons for the errors was that in addition to the copies of the original city ordinances, the copies of the working copies of some of the ordinances, which led to confusion, Kaup said.
THE LETTER to the commission will be mailed this week. he said.
Investigations
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Out of 45 errors, five can be considered substantive, Kaup said.
"Several of those occurred because the League
rulled upon the document put together by the
deputy."
That document, the working paper, consisted of two chapters produced by the planning department that dealt with flood plan ordinances.
Francisco said that in the future a number of tests will be done differently in the codification process.
'One of them is using the ordinances themselves rather than documents that have been produced in the planning department,' she said.
COMMISSIONERS agreed that in the future they must have an opportunity to see the final version of the code before they are asked to approve it.
Clark emphasized that errors appearing in city codes were not unique to Lawrence.
Commissioners also raised the question of whether Watson had given the city staff adequate personnel to prepare the original version of the ordinance.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said, "The problem is that the staff did not have adequate help and that's what the city manager has got to work on."
But Watson said, "I had no indication that they needed help."
Clark said that city staff might have needed a warrant to order ordinances, but that this was not Wilson's fault.
Kaup said that some of the errors were also leaked in the Leaguer. If these mistakes would be deleted in the Leaguer,
It is too early to estimate the cost to the city from the mistakes, because the commission will have to decide which parts of the code need reprinting, he said.
Prof dates farming spread genetically
By tracing human genetic traits, evidence supports the spread of agriculture from the Middle East to northwestern Europe in the period 8,000 to 5,000 B.C., a professor of genetics from Stanford University told about 80 people at the Kansas Union yesterday.
Agriculture fulfilled an important need among the early inhabitants of Europe, who until about 9,000 B.C. had subsisted on hunting and the fruits of nature. Cavalioli-Sorza said.
lecture at 2 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Union.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who has written four books on human population genetics, used slides to illustrate how migrations of the early inhabitants of Europe—coupled with a cultural limitation spread by word of mouth—brought the increased usage of farming methods in blood.
THE LECTURE was the first of two sponsored by a fund established to enhance teaching programs at the KU division of biological sciences. Cavali-Sforza will give a different
"The reason that it revolutionized our lives completely is that it made possible the advent of cities, villages, countries and civilizations," he said.
agriculture included herds of sheep, goats, cattle and cereal grains such as barley.
"Migrants left their genetic fingerprints upon the peoples of Europe," he said.
THE MIDDLE EAST contributions to
Today's lecture will concentrate on methods for studying cultural traits and their transmission, Cavali-Storva said, by using as examples the California students and an ethnic group of students.
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